Sammy Mwaita

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will only take one- and-a-half minutes because I obey advice from the Chair. One point I wanted to raise in support of this Bill is that in procurement, the major problem has always been the evaluation committees. It is not the tender committee. The tender committee prepares and opens the tender having been processed by the procurement managers and when they form evaluation committees, this is where Accounting Officers manipulate the procurement process by appointing cronies to those evaluation committees. Clause 46(1) says that an Accounting Officer shall appoint, ad hoc - ad ... view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute --- view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker--- view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. In my time, I want to donate two minutes to hon. Sambili. view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Okay. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I thank the Mover of the Motion because the issue at hand, which is cattle rustling, has become a serious menace in Baringo County. Indeed, in the whole of North Rift, it has become a national disaster. Maybe, before I proceed and mention two things, I want to clarify and correct my friend, the immediate speaker, who said that in Baringo County, there are two communities; that is wrong. In Baringo County, we have the Tugens, Njemps which is a Maa speaking community, the Turkana and the Pokot. So, it is not ... view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Secondly, I have said that cattlerustling has become a national disaster. I recall in the last Parliament, there was a special select committee which went round this country collecting views and reports were given.We have raised the matter as leaders from Baringo County to the new Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of the National Government, hon. Nkaissery. We have even done a write up and we are expecting him to implement this in order to bring this menace to a close. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will not waste a lot of time talking about the effects of cattle ... view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: schools were vandalised. I recall one case of Arabal Primary School which was vandalised yesterday by the same bandits and robbers who take our animals. They removed iron sheets and desks and burnt them. They also burnt houses. Well, over 25,000 people within Baringo South which used to be my constituency in the last term have been displaced. These are Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who should be compensated by the Government the way they are compensating the post-election violence IDPs. These issues have been raised to the Government and we expect action. We expect it to be implemented. view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thirdly, it is the question of lives lost. Hundreds of lives have been lost from 2005 up to and including January, 2015. I recall that on 5th January, 2015, I lost a cousin who was a watchman guarding Arabal Primary School. He was gunned down brutally in the afternoon while he was guarding a school into which Government money was put. view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Fourthly is to give the way forward. I want to support what other leaders have said about the question of police reservists. As a matter of urgency, let the Government implement and recruit police reservists who have been proposed in Baringo, Tiaty, Baringo North and Baringo South counties immediately in order to address this. view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Fifthly is the question of operation. I know Operation Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) are in Kapedo, but they are not doing much. We would want the operation to mop out all those illegal occupants particularly the aggressors who have moved in and displaced the 25,000 people we were talking about in Baringo South.They should move to their area. Even if they are looking for pasture, there are better ways of looking for pasture. You do not shoot the owners of the land, burn their houses, close schools and kill people in order to get pasture. This is not the way ... view